The Supreme Court Mapping Project is an ongoing and collaborative research venture that uses original software technology to enhance teaching, learning, and scholarship about Supreme Court doctrine.

The SCOTUS Mapping Project has two components:

Development of the Mapper software. There are now two versions of the mapping software with which users can create sophisticated interactive maps of Court doctrine -- a free online tool and a desktop version made available upon request.

Building libraries of Supreme Court doctrinal maps.Our main library has dozens of useful maps charting 1st, 4th, 5th, 8th and 14th Amendment doctrine. Maps also cover precedent regarding commerce power, patents, civil procedure and more. Our 2014 Term library provides a map for every case decided in the the Court's 2014 Term and our 2015 Term library does the same for the 2015 Term.

The SCOTUS Mapping Project proudly works in collaboration with Free Law Project. We welcome new collaborators. Please email Project director Colin Starger for more information.

For his work on the SCOTUS Mapping Project, Professor Starger was honored in 2014's "Fastcase 50".